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J.D. Salinger Deconstructed in the First Trailer for The Weinstein Company's SALINGER Documentary

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J.D. Salinger Deconstructed in the First Trailer for The Weinstein Company's SALINGER Documentary

J.D. Salinger Deconstructed in the First Trailer for The Weinstein Company's SALINGER Documentary

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 04:30 AM PDT

As one of the most revered and enigmatic writers of the 20th century, it's inevitable that J.D. Salinger would eventually become the subject of a documentary. Directed by Shane Salerno, the first trailer for Salinger has been released by the Weinstein Company today. Personally, I've always had more interest in the work than the man (if he wanted to keep his private life private, that's fine). The trailer features interviews with Hollywood luminaries such as Edward Norton, John Cusack, Martin Sheen and Danny DeVito. I'm a little confused as to why they would be interviewed on the subject of Salinger, other than to get some commercial attention, so I'm hoping the film will feature interviews with writers and academics (not to suggest that these people...

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Review: WORLD WAR Z aka Zombies With Brad Shuffles, Stumbles, Drops Dead

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 03:00 AM PDT

I had little hope for this 'adaptation' when the first trailer popped up. Abandoning almost everything from the gripping and terrifying novel by Max Brooks, director Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) instead funnels the story into a singular narrative that amounts to Brad Pitt globetrotting and running a lot. This is OK; on its own merits World War Z could have been a superior action thriller utilizing its locales intelligently and bringing its utterly chaotic premise to a satisfying close. I did say could have been. Feelings for the film dwindled even further after Twitch revealed here and here that Damon Lindelof (Lost, Prometheus) was tasked with rewriting the ending and that seven weeks of re-shoots were required. Following this, so as not to offend the great...

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Korean Comedy HELLO GHOST To Get Adam Sandler Makeover

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT

With Spike Lee's Oldboy bearing down on us and recent news of remakes for the other films in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy on the way, not to mention American versions of Confession of Murder and New World, there's no shortage of Korean films being remade by Hollywood these days. The trend is still hot it seems as the latest project to be optioned by Tinseltown is supernatural comedy Hello Ghost, which scared up some strong business in the winter of 2010/11.Adam Sandler is set to headline the film, which is called Ghost, and will directed by Chris Columbus for Universal. Sandler will take on the lead role that was played by popular Korean funny man Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl, 2001) in the original. The...

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It Sucks To Be Earth-Bound In New Extended ELYSIUM Trailer

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 01:00 AM PDT

A new extended trailer for Elysium is here and it features more of everything we want out of this film. We get more robots. We get more of Matt Damon's character Max, and his story on Earth, and the accident that sets this story in motion so we know why he has to get to Elysium. We get more of Sharlto Copley as Kruger and the suggestion that he may also be enhanced in some fashion ("Activate Kruger!"). Just more of everything to make us pine for this film even more. There are even a few scant glimpses of William Fichtner tossed into the mix. And we have to wait until August 9th for all of this to come together into a big gleeful package!In the year 2159, two...

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ICEMAN 3D Has Too Much Donnie! Martial Arts Epic To Be Split Into Two Films

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 12:28 AM PDT

Iceman 3D, Law Wing Cheong's big budget remake of Clarence Fok's 1989 film The Iceman Cometh has been in the headlines pretty much non-stop since production began, with stories of extensive re-shoots, a ballooning budget and even problems filming on location in Hong Kong slowing things down. Now news arrives that the time-travelling martial arts epic, which stars Donnie Yen as a Ming era warrior thawed out in modern day Hong Kong, will be not one film, but two.Twitch has learned from a source within the production that the current edit of Iceman 3D is somewhere in the region of 3.5 hours long, and rather than dump the extra footage to get the film down to a more audience-friendly two hours, producers have opted to cut...

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PiFan 2013: NAFF Spotlight Projects Showcase New Filipino Genre Cinema

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 08:30 PM PDT

The 6th Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) has announced the seven projects that will comprise its spotlight focus on The Philippines this year. Featuring experienced talent such as Richard Somes and Tikoy Aguiluz alongside younger directors who have begun to make their mark, the spotlight promises to showcase the growing strength of Filipino Genre Cinema.Amable 'Tikoy' Aguiluz, who has been active in Filipino Cinema for almost 30 years and founded the Cinemanila Intl. Film Festival, will be presenting Dance of Death, a revenge film set at the gates of hell. The young Ato Bautista, who has quickly established himself with films like Blackout (2007) and his contribution to the horror omnibus Cinco (2010), will participate with the bloody action thriller Bad Blood. Multi-hyphenate Khavn de...

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Revelation Perth Secures A FIELD IN ENGLAND Australian Premiere

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 08:00 PM PDT

Earlier this week Twitch reported that Wright, Pegg and Frost would be coming to Australia for the premiere of The World's End, specifically to the East Coast cities Melbourne and Sydney. After the story broke I checked on Twitter to discover lots of people from other parts of the country were bummed they'd be missing out on catching a glimpse of these guys.Well, now it's the West's turn to celebrate as the Revelation Perth International Film Festival has announced Ben Wheatley's new film A Field in England will have its Australian premiere at the festival in July. To my mind this is far better news than celebrity-spotting The World's End guys from a distance and standing out in the rain while famous people get to...

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Melbourne Cinematheque June Round-up: Fast And Cheap With Roger Corman

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Welcome back to my ongoing coverage of the Melbourne Cinematheque's fantastic program for 2013. From 12 to 26 June at ACMI, the focus is on B-movie king Roger Corman's 'vulgar auteurism' in the retrospective Fast, Cheap & Under Control.Stupendously prolific, Corman has directed more than 50 movies and produced over 300 - his distinctive voice was recognized early by progressive critics. His most acclaimed films may be his cycle of eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, but he brought to all his films a unique visual style, a knowing playfulness towards genre conventions, and a critical vigour in his use of subversive themes and charged symbolic schemata.Corman has had, in critic David Thomson's words, "an admirable record as a sponsor of new talent". Directors who worked...

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Shah Rukh Khan Gets Crazy 90s-Style In First CHENNAI EXPRESS Trailer!

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Finally.UTV Motion Pictures today released the first trailer for the upcoming Rohit Shetty film, Chennai Express starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone and it looks far better than I'd anticipated. Shetty is known mostly for his gonzo masala action comedies like 2011's Singham, the Golmaal series, and Bol Bachchan, but Chennai Express looks like a slight departure from him due to one major factor, the inclusion of Bollywood's singular superstar, Shah Rukh Khan. SRK's participation in Chennai Express means that Shetty will have to class the joint up a little, as this star brings his own major cache along with him to the set, not to mention the fact that Chennai Express is being co-produced by SRK's Red Chillies Entertainment. The result is bound to...

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Check A Trio Of VHS 2 Episode Posters

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 03:35 PM PDT

With horror anthology VHS 2 now available on VOD in the US distributors Magnet Releasing have been teasing audiences with poster art devoted to individual short films included in the project. Things got rolling with posters for Adam Wingard's Clinical Trials Phase 1 and Gareth Evans / Timo Tjahjanto collaborative effort Safe Haven, and now FearNet have debuted a new poster for Jason Eisener's Slumber Party Alien Abduction by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artist Sheldon Vella. Check them all out below!VHS 2 will hit the big screen in limited release July 12th....

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Nicolas Bro Is The Flea! Fear Him!

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 01:50 PM PDT

One of Twitch's favorite character actors gets to play super villain in Ask Hasselbalch's upcoming adaptation of popular children's books Antboy. 12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban community, and when a scary and crazy supervillain, Flea, enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge.Young Oscar Dietz plays Pelle / Antboy in the film with Nicolas Bro - a frequent collaborator with Christoffer Boe, amongst others - playing the villainous Flea. Check the images below!...

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Review: STORM SURFERS 3D Hits A New High Water Mark

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Plenty of arguments have been made about the merits of our current 3D cinematic boom. While much of the talk focuses on ticket prices and the gimmick factor, one common discourse is that the experience of watching a film in 3D actually distracts the viewer from the story being told. The argument goes that if the viewer is busy saying "cool!" then the story's curtain of escapism will be torn away. It's in a new wave of documentaries that we have seen the most successful implementation of 3D thus far. Wim Wenders' modern dance doc Pina led the way with a remarkable cinematic experience that was enhanced by its 3D cool factor without the trapping as a narrative distraction. Yet to truly take off, sports...

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Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To See Bruce Lee In FIST OF FURY, Introduced By Co-Star Nora Miao!

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT

How do you follow one screen icon? With another one, of course. With the Jackie Chan stretch of the Swordsmen, Gangsters And Ghosts retrospective wrapping up tonight with Chan on hand to personally introduce Police Story, we keep things rolling on Friday with Bruce Lee star vehicle Fist Of Fury. And though Lee's not here, for obvious reasons, co-star Nora Miao is and will be present to introduce the screening!Once again Twitch has two pairs of tickets to give away for the screening. All you need to do for your chance to win is email me here and name the Jet Li starring remake of this film. Winners will be drawn at random....

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Review: THE GUILLOTINES Dulls Its Blade

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT

It has been a long and bumpy road for Peter Chan, getting his new production of The Guillotines to the big screen. First announced back in 2009 with Hong Kong's man-of-the-moment Dante Lam at the helm, Teddy Chen then took the reins when Emperor Motion Pictures gave The Viral Factor the green light, only for the production to grind to a halt just weeks before shooting was set to commence. Script issues were cited, but it emerged that Chan had again fallen out with Chen (as was the case of their previous collaboration, Bodyguards and Assassins). History repeated itself, and Chen was replaced by Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs), but things finally got underway. Originally thought to be a remake of the Jimmy Wang Yu classic,...

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SNABBA CASH (EASY MONEY) 3 Trailer Locks And Loads

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Before he became RoboCop it was Swedish crime film Snabba Cash (Easy Money) that launched Joel Kinnaman to stardom. Immediately snapped up by The Weinstein Company and prepped for US remake - reportedly with Zac Efron taking on the Kinnaman role - it took rather a long time for the first Snabba Cash to hit US release but the balance that film strikes between action and riveting character work remains impressive today. The first Snabba Cash also happened to earn a great big bag of money throughout Europe which has meant - of course - sequels. Based on a trilogy of novels by Jens Lapidus, a second film followed quickly after the first and now a third - titled Life Deluxe - is about to...

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LA Film Fest 2013: Twitch Picks 12 Must-See Films

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT

It's LA Film Fest time with LA's downtown fest kicking off tonight with Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited. Twitch will be on hand with a small crew to bring you news and reviews from around the fest. You can follow us on twitter at @TwitchFilm | @BenUmstead | @AlexKoehne | @RylandAldrich Now here are our 12 must see picks from the fest!...

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The Creators Of ATROCIOUS Return For 21 DAYS

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 09:30 AM PDT

The creators of Atrocious are getting creepy once again, and this time in English. Atrocious director Fernando Barreda Luna and Jessica Villegas will serve as producers on 21 Days, the debut feature by writer director Kathleen Behun.Three filmmakers embark on a paranormal challenge by barricading themselves in a house so haunted, no family has been able to live in more than 21 days, in order to film the supernatural phenomena which presumably occur... but nothing can prepare them for the evil that lies in wait... There are some places so dark, so evil, where no human-­‐ no living thing-­‐ should dwell...Pre-production is already under way with a fall completion targeted....

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Opening: THE BLING RING, Robbing Celebrities And Falling Flat

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

"A somewhat alarming portrayal in a rather unassuming guise," Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring opens in limited release in the U.S. on Friday, June 14. The film stars Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, and Israel Broussard, and is based on the true story of a gang of young people in Los Angeles who robbed the homes of celebrities. Our own Ryland Aldrich saw the film at Cannes last month, and his words are quoted above. He had much more to say, of course, including the following: Instead of using character development to teach the audience what went wrong with these kids (or, say, generation), Coppola just takes us on a 90-minute vacation into their fun-filled lives of coke-fueled clubbing and slo-mo selfies. Where is...

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Fantasia Announces Off Frontières Projects

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 08:31 AM PDT

The Fantasia International Film Festival's ever-growing marketplace has announced the International Off-Frontières line-up. The projects feature additional up-and-coming talents as well as experienced filmmakers from the independent genre film world.  A sampling includes the Godfather of Canadian indie cinema, Larry Kent, with his first foray into horror, She Who Must Burn, Daniel Castro Zimbrón's The Darkness (which is being exec-produced by We Are What We Are director Jorge Michel Grau), Glass Eye Pix's The Mortuary Collection and Boris Rodriguez's follow up to Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal, titled Emerald Falls.Fantasia runs from July 18 to August 6 with the Film Markets starting up on the second weekend of the fest. The full list of Off-Frontières projects is here: CANUXPLOITATION (USA)Director: Josh Johnson (Rewind This!)Documentary DEAD MAX (Québec)Director: Patrick Boivin (Bunker)Writer:...

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Iconic Warrior Musashi Miyamoto Gets The Arthouse Treatment In Sidney Lexy Plaut's DARK SAMURAI

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT

What's this? A trance inducing, time hopping, hypnotic treatment of iconic samurai Musashi Miyamoto - author of The Book Of Five Rings - from Denmark? With the producer of Valhalla Rising and Only God Forgives on board as an executive producer? That's exactly what you have in Sidney Lexy Plaut's Dark Samurai.Through life, death, rebirth and the afterlife, the film flows seamlessly between the past, present and future, all simultaneously unfolding in parallel voids and universes. The film explores the very human and agonizing processes that go through the shattered mind of Miyamoto who is so broken and destroyed that the only thing he has left is the rapidly fading memories of his love -- his undying, yet to a samurai-yakuza warrior strictly forbidden love...

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Review: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, A Dark, Haunting Treat

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 08:01 AM PDT

A timid, unsure man named Gilderoy (Toby Jones) has just flown from London to Italy. He shuffles through the corridors of a nearly abandoned building. He is greeted coldly by a detached but beautiful secretary, Elena (Tonia Sotiropoulou), who directs him to a sound studio, it seems the 'silenzio' light never stops flashing above it as the film progresses. He is greeted by his new employer, the sleazy producer Francesco (Cosimo Fusco), and after a few days begins to unravel due to work pressures and strange occurrences, which lead to even more puzzling developments and horrific scenarios that question the reality of the film's premise entirely. I approach discussing Berberian Sound Studio with total caution, as I am not entirely sure what I experienced. The...

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Watch The First Teaser For Danish Crime Thriller THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 07:45 AM PDT

On the surface it is a move that feels like a remarkable departure - Mikkel Norgaard, best known as the director of outrageous Danish comedy Klown being handed the reins to a major new series of Danish crime novel adaptations with upcoming effort The Keeper Of Lost Causes. Based on the writing of Jussi Adler-Olsen this is very much meant to be the first in a new series and it's safe to say that no fingers will be inserted into anuses for laughs here, which makes Norgaard's selection as director somewhat surprising to some. But look deeper into Norgaard's filmography - particularly the multiple episodes of hit political drama Borgen he has helmed - and the decision makes considerably more sense.Following a shootout that left...

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Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema: THE MAN WITH THREE COFFINS

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Adventures in Classic Korean Cinema is a bi-weekly feature looking back at classic South Korean Cinema. Though oppressed by Chung Doo-hwan's administration throughout much of the decade, the Korean film industry was nevertheless able to produce some remarkable films in the 1980s. However, for all their social gravitas and literary refinement, rarely was it the case that films from this period were praised for their technical achievements. Classics from this time such as The Ball Shot by a Midget (1981), The Oldest Son (1985) and Chilsu and Mansu (1988) shone a sober and somber light on the nation's dark social realities but few sought to experiment with the medium. However, this past Sunday, following a special screening at the Korean Film Archive (KOFA), I discovered...

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"I Am Siege Face" Declares ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA In The Latest Trailer

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 05:27 AM PDT

Steve Coogan has appeared on our screens, both big and small, in many guises over the years, but absolutely nothing the comedian has created comes close to Alan Partridge - one-time chat show host, erstwhile radio broadcaster, perennial ABBA aficianado and now star of his own cinematic extravaganza. Coogan again teams up with the hugely talented writing partners Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, In The Loop, Veep), Patrick Marber and Peter Baynham, together with Neil and Rob Gibbons - all of whom have written for Partridge in the past - with TV comedy veteran Declan Lowney (Father Ted, Little Britain) handling directorial duties.Plot-wise, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa sees the staff of North Norfolk Digital radio under siege, when disgruntled fellow DJ Colm Meaney is unceremoniously...

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